ARTIST STATEMENT
The digital graphic works ”Eclipse 3” from the serie of works ”After the Dot” is a continuation of the author’s multi-year research into the relationship between technology, identity and human spirituality. The works are ”digital collages” composed of vector graphics, glitch art elements, interfaces of various computer programs and elements from the digital world taken from our everyday technological reality. The message of the artist is summarized in the title with the aim of encouraging viewers to reconsider their attitudes in the context of the interrelationship of identity, spirit and technology, especially in terms of the development and use of artificial intelligence. The aim of the works is to point out the constant unconscious ”shifting” from the virtual to the physical (and vice versa), which takes place in fractions of seconds (blinks), and which assumes new forms of communication, where important ethical questions are inevitably imposed on us.
BIOGRAPHY
Mia Vučić was born in 1981 in Zagreb, Croatia. She works with computer graphics and printmaking. In her works, she explores the interrelationships between technology, identity and human spirituality. In 2010 she completed postgraduate specialist studies in graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2005 she graduated from the Design Study at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb. She exhibited at 7 solo and 33 group exhibitions abroad (Germany, China, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, USA, UK, Belgium, Lithuania, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Egypt, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic) and 23 in Croatia. She won 6 awards, 3 international and 3 in Croatia (In 2023 International Prize Michelangelo - Genius of Italy, Effeto Arte Foundation, curators Francesco Saverio Russo and Salvatore Russo, Teatro Italia, Rome; 5th International prize Leonardo da Vinci for Universal Artist, Effeto Arte Foundation, curators Francesco Saverio Russo and Salvatore Russo, National Museum of Science and Technology, Milan, Italy; in 2016 Diploma for contemporary expression, The 9th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms Vilnius 2016, Vilnius Graphic Art Center, Lithuania). The author’s works are in several collections around the world and 11 publications. In 2009 and 2010 she worked as an associate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, in the Department of Graphics. From 2010 to 2020 she worked as a lecturer in the subject ”Drawing” as part of the preparation program for studying architecture. She has been a member of Croatian Association of Artists since 2010. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.